10 bucks to the first one to hit the plane.

I know, I have seen them.

I was sysadmin for a Bankruptcy and Insolvency Firm for more than a decade and walked into 100s of businesses on the point of failure. Many of them could not be saved simply because their systems were so bad it was better for a buyer to buy their equipment and start with a clean sheet.

The ice cream business was going under because the partner who had been the access self starter had an argument with the others and had walked out 18months ago.

The access system ran the entire business (accounting and wages were on other programs but the db feed them data) and he was the only one who had any idea.

Shit started to go wrong and they had no idea what to do.

I believe you. I can even guess the story.

In the late 80s/early 90s a staff member (self taught in office/access) quickly threw together something at the request of a manager as a stop gap wile a new proper system was specked out.

The person learned as they went and the system grew in functionality and complexity until the term spaghetti code was a massive understatement. It became their job.

The new proper system never arrived and they have been making do for the past 30-40 years.

I ran into the same thing a decade or so ago and it was a nightmare, but it was just an ice cream franchise, not prison related

The prisoner transport system ran on MS access lol

This is just…Well, if you wrote a prison escape movie that involved accessing an Access DB to reroute a transport you would be laughed at.

Not anymore.

They are about 2 years too late.

The rise in interest rates and the end of easy VC money has swung the dial back to: Companies actually need to generate profit and not just show user growth to be attractive to investors.

The IPO will not go as spez dreamed for so long.

True but the problem is that they see 1,000,000s of people using the free version and think they are leaving money on the table by not charging and assume ~50% will happily pay for it when the conversion rate from free to paid is usually closer to 1% than it is to 50%.

Giving something away for free then expecting to make people pay for it is always a winning strategy…

I am very comfortable with never owning a ubisoft game ever again.

Documentary on the subject

The brace plate for a PNW (personal nuclear weapon).

Junket.

Yogurt.

Frozen milk.

etc

etc

etc

Well, if the snake manages to reproduce, then eats itself, the genes for eating yourself after reproduction get passed on.

TLDR: you actions have a must smaller effect on evolution after you have reproduced successfully.

Environments suggesting an afterlife may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.

What is your control group for this?

Does people not experiencing this while mediating prove it does not exist. (I have been meditation for 20 years and have no indication of this)

Interviews with children who recall past lives suggests reincarnation.

Do interviews with children who do not recall pass lives invalidate this?

Something fitting description of a “creator of the universe” may be encountered via certain meditation techniques.

What is your control group for this?

Does people not experiencing this while mediating prove it does not exist. (I have been meditation for 20 years and have no indication of this)

Little people. Hmm. You got me there. But the literature is filled with reports.

Literature is filled with shit people made up, it proves nothing scientifically.

And of course, these methods unavoidably esoteric and depthy.

Exactly, none of what you wrote is based on the scientific method.

The doctors at the hospital where this happened were also doing autopsies and would often go directly from an autopsie to the delivery ward without washing their hands.

The midwives did not perform autopsies.

It was not that the midwives’ hands were especially clean, it was that the Dr’s hands were very contaminated.

Give us your experimental designs to verify or falsify all the things you listed:

Afterlife

Reincarnation

A creator of the universe

Little people

Spirits

I personally believe none of it but show me how it can be proven using the scientific method.

There ARE things where you can’t “bias” your way out of it, things that are objectively correct and incorrect.

There are still people who believe the world is flat.

The things you believe are objectively correct and incorrect are not the same for everyone.

That is the problem,

Reality is not the same for everyone and many people believe they have the right to enforce their version of reality on others.

yep. The bigger the sub, the worse it was.

You would get some niche subs were there was some decent discussion but once one passed about 100K subscribers there would be a noticeable downward spiral.

deleted by creator

Not surprising really, humans haven’t changed in that time.